John Carter (2012)

James Purefoy: Kantos Kan

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• Kantos Kan : Ah, Zodanga, where the men are as limited as the menu and woman are as hard as the beds.

• Tardos Mors : Dejah, ever since you were a little girl, you've always met the expectations placed on you. It's Sab's terms.

  Dejah Thoris : What are they?

  Tardos Mors : He will spare Helium, if you accept his hand in marriage.

  Dejah Thoris : No! He is a monster! You must refuse him!

  Tardos Mors : He's already on his way here.

  Dejah Thoris : But all of my work! I just need a little more time!

  Tardos Mors : Dejah.

  Dejah Thoris : How can you...? You can't just bow down to Zodanga!

  Tardos Mors : A wedding will save the city!

  Dejah Thoris : Perhaps! But it could lose you Barsoom!

  Tardos Mors : Dejah!

  Dejah Thoris : With no one to stop Zodanga it will be the beginning of the end!

  Tardos Mors : We do not... we do not have the luxury.

  Dejah Thoris : [shouting]  You are the Jeddak of Helium! You must find another way!

  Tardos Mors : [shouting]  There is no other way!

  [Dejah looks away from Tardos] 

  Tardos Mors : If there were, I would risk anything to cease it. This is the chance we have been given. Perhaps it is the will of the Goddess.

  Dejah Thoris : No. It is your will. When I was little and we would look up at the stars, and you would tell me of the heroes whose glory was written in the sky. How there was a star up there for me. Is this what you imagined would be written on it?

  Tardos Mors : [before Tardos answers her Kantos enters with his men] 

  Kantos Kan : My Jeddak, Sab Than's Corsair approaches the city. They signal for permission to land.

  Tardos Mors : Grant it.

  [Dejah turns away from Tardos in disappointment and sadness] 

  Tardos Mors : And let us prepare ourselves for a wedding.

• Kantos Kan : My name is Kantos Kan. I serve Princess Dejah.

  John Carter : Dejah?

  Kantos Kan : Uh-huh. From what she tells me, you can get us over... there.

  [he points to Sab Than's palace] 

  John Carter : She said I could make that?

  Kantos Kan : We could always surrender. Is that what you do on Jarsoom?

  [John grabs a hold of Kantos and leaps into the air far enough to grab the palace's stone ledge and tumble into Dejah's bridal suite]